Risālaẗ fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-ḫafāʾihā nahāran

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Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran

Title (arabic)	رسالة في سبب ظهور الکواکب ليلاً وخفائها نهاراً
Title (translit)	Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran
Alias	Risālaẗ fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-ḫafāʾihā nahāran Risālah fī ruʾyat al-kawākib bi-al-layl lā bi- (fī) al-nahār
Author	Zayn al-Dīn Abū al-Barakāt Hibat Allāh ibn ʿAlī ibn Malkā al-Baladī al-Yahūdī al-Baghdādī
Misattributed	Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā
Created	534H/1140J
Language	Arabic
Subject	Astronomy: General
Text type	First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]
Notes	This treatise by Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī (ca. 1077-ca. 1165) is dedicated to Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Malik Shāh (r. 1105-18).
ismi_id	467079

Manuscript Witnesses

9 witnesses:

Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran_Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Ms. or. fol._258

Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran_Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Petermann II_466

Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran_Hyderabad_Oriental MSS Lib. and Research Inst. [Āṣafiyya]_Riyāḍa (OMLRI)_327

Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_4832

Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_4872

Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran_London_British Library_Delhi Arabic_1919

Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran_Mashhad_Mashhad University_unknown (Mashhad)_6012

Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran_Mashhad_Mashhad University_unknown (Mashhad)_68

Risālah fī sabab ẓuhūr al-kawākib laylan wa-khafāʾihā nahāran_Tehran_Mahdawi (Library of Dr. Asghar Mahdawi)_Mahdawi_482

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English translation of the text.